Hosmer is more than just regular bad right now, which is actually promising to me. It sure seems like he has mechanical issues, which are presumably fixable, especially for a professional hitter like Hosmer.

Why would that be promising? He wasn't brought here to battle through mechanical issues all season. We have 7+ other players doing that.

Yeah, just looks like more of the normal Padres "curse" we are used to with position players. I am completely miffed. How is it possible to never have a friggin lead-leaguer in an O category on this team?

Yeah, just looks like more of the normal Padres "curse" we are used to with position players. I am completely miffed. How is it possible to never have a friggin lead-leaguer in an O category on this team?

Yeah, just looks like more of the normal Padres "curse" we are used to with position players. I am completely miffed. How is it possible to never have a friggin lead-leaguer in an O category on this team?

Never? There's literally a statue of someone outside the park who consistently led, and especially contended to lead (as you later stated) the league in an offensive category.

Yes, but it's convenient that he's having the worst time of his career with it at the same time he's getting more $. I'm sorry, but a 1b making $20M should not be having an OPS barely over .700 with bad defense. You can get that for league minimum.

I don't really care about the optics. My point is that Hosmer is currently in what I can only imagine is the worst slump of his career and has dropped 0.7 fWAR in 11 days but in a way that suggests that it's just a slump and can be worked out of.